Following the Riga summit, more realism is required over what the EU can offer its eastern partners

Knott, Eleanor ORCID: 0000-0002-9131-3939 (2015) Following the Riga summit, more realism is required over what the EU can offer its eastern partners. LSE European Politics and Policy (EUROPP) Blog (01 Jun 2015). Website.

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The latest Eastern Partnership summit was held in Riga on 21-22 May. The summit was the first to be held since the Vilnius summit in November 2013 which precipitated the Ukraine crisis. Ellie Knott writes on the outcome of the summit and what it means for the development of relations between the EU and Eastern Partnership states. She notes that the EU is now faced with a difficult balancing act of convincing Russia that it is not engaged in direct competition for influence over post-Soviet states, while offering enough concessions to those Eastern Partnership countries that would like to pursue deeper EU integration.

Item Type:	Online resource (Website)
Official URL:	http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/europpblog/
Additional Information:	© 2015 The Author
Divisions:	LSE
Subjects:	J Political Science > JN Political institutions (Europe)
Date Deposited:	08 Jun 2015 10:33
Last Modified:	13 Sep 2024 23:49
URI:	http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/62234

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